Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jan 26, 2023

Read my lips:

An audio show that can only be played in an Apple player on an Apple device is not a podcast.

An audio show that can only be played in Spotify is not a podcast.

Repeat ad nauseam for any other proprietary audio show platforms.

A #podcast is an #RSS feed with enclosures of audio files which are playable across the whole ecosystem of podcast players.

Any reporter who reports on exclusive audio shows and calls them “podcasts” are doing a grave disservice to their audience.

Show threadStephen Gower
@jaredwhite I get where you're coming from, but it's not a hill I'm going to die on. Now, trying to call someone's YouTube video a podcast...that's where I draw the line.
Jan 26, 2023 at 1:50pmWeb
Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jan 26, 2023

@srgower But why are you drawing the line there? If a podcast is just a show where people chitchat about whatever for some lengthy period of time, and they happen to record a video of them doing so and put it on YouTube, surely that's still a podcast right?

In my view, if we don't draw the line at where the actual technology of open podcasting has itself been drawn to date, all bets are off.

Show threadStephen GowerJan 26, 2023
@jaredwhite Podcast is audio. Video is an entirely different medium. It's not any simpler than that. RSS distribution isn't going anywhere, but unfortunately neither is platform exclusivity.